Amsterdam: Jansson, 1628. 13.6 x 20 cm. Uncoloured. Single page general map of the British Isles. Several place names neatly underlined in red ink in an old hand. Latin text on verso. Some light show through text, otherwise in very good condition.

Amsterdam: Jansson, 1628. Overall 14.2 x 18.1 cm. Uncoloured. Five maps on one sheet. The two main panels showing Cuba and Hispaniola, inset chart of Havana to upper right corner of map of Cuba. Inset maps of Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita. Latin text on verso. Impression somewhat light, otherwise in very good condition.

1628. Promenading young men and women, included as illustration to Gilles Jacobs Quintijn's:'De Hollandsche Lys met de Brabantsche Bely'. Below left:'AVV' and on the right: 'Theod. Matham fe 1628'. Some text in letterpress within plate, above. Engraving on paper, on the verso text in letterpress, pasted on laid paper with manuscript text copied in black ink from the verso of the engraving; print: 90 x 118 mm; total: 322 x 260 mm. Only state, New Hollstein 187

London: Printed for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young, 1628 - Folio (327 x 220 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked to style, red calf label, raised bands, compartments ruled and decorated in gilt and black, boards ruled in blind. Housed in a purple morocco slipcase. Library stamp to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and final page, armorial bookplate to title page verso, a few marginal marks to pages 469 and 507 of the second book. A few marks and spill-burns to boards, some small tears to page extremities, occasional minor ink staining, spotting, and dampstain to contents, neat marginal reinforcement to sig. T2, T3, and corresponding map, and to final four leaves, overall a very good and clean copy. Engraved title page portrait of Raleigh, 8 double-page engraved maps and plans, numerous tables to the text. Bound without the additional engraved title page dated 1614. Fourth edition (as stated in STC) of Raleigh's major work written during his years in the Tower, one of only a few of his writings intended for publication to a wide audience, "a political tract of immediate applicability" (PMM). First published in 1614, The History of the World was straightaway suppressed for its censorship of the monarchy, but it remained extremely popular and ran through ten editions between 1614 and 1687. "What exists is a substantial work, of about a million words, in five books, running from the creation of the world to 146 BC, the time of the second Macedonian war. The first two books are principally, though not wholly, concerned with biblical history
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